Itunes 12.7 bug: every song is its own album

Copy/paste typo; should have read ...

Using iTunes to Copy to iOS Device (i.e. Not Using iTunes Library):

Copying the songs via iTunes to the iOS 11.x device yields songs that appear as their own separate albums.

Apologies.

mezzuzah12 wrote:

If I downgrade, would my current music library still be compatible with the older version?

No. See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash for a workaround.

tt2

I have long recommended using a single ID3v.2.3 tag for best results.

tt2

Hmm, a single ID3v2.3 tag should work better than a scheme with both ID3v1.0+ID3v2.x or ID3v2.4. IDv3 isn't a thing.

tt2

Good thing Apple goes out its way to prevent us using any other technique to get our MP3s onto the world's flagship music player.

Whenever I'm forced to use iTunes I think of Steve Jobs and what he cared most about.

I prefer automatic syncing to manual management. Organization within the music app ought to be the same whichever method has been used to load the content. Try as I might I only see one copy of each album cover in the albums view, and one copy of each artist in the artists view. In the songs view I'm currently sorting by artist, which is actually album by artist, so I see one cover against each song from the same album in turn as I expect.

Still not sure what it is that you see. 😕

tt2

I am having the same issue and it is very annoying. I thought it will be fixed by the new iTunes update but no. I manually manage the songs in my iPhone and everytime I drag the album folder into my phone, they show up as individual tiles of songs instead of being grouped as one album. Please let me know if you have found a solution to the problem. Thank You.

I'm having this same exact issue, ever since upgrading itunes which it required me to when I upgraded to X. I'm trying to put all the music manually I had before on it and 9 times out of 10 album is split songs as individual albums ....tried every workaround I could find and will not work, tried reinstalling itunes and same issue.

I'm surprised you've ever been able to drag media from the file system directly to the device rather than add it the library, and then add it from the library to the device. The first one hasn't really been the Apple way. 😕

tt2

Well if you want to see it that way then each to their own. Personally given the ease with which a device could be lost, stolen, damaged, or corrupted it seems daft to me not to have a complete copy of your library ready and waiting on your computer to restore to the device, or a replacement. Likewise I have my iTunes library and all of my other data that I care about backed up to guard against hard drive failure.

tt2

Have latest iTunes. Latest OS. Have same issue. ... Have new device. Trying to load same songs I have on another device. Have edited MP3 tags in iTunes, thru Windows, thru MP3 tag utility. Nothing working.

This doesn't work for me.

I have all my music in my iTunes library (nothing outside).

Recently, all songs that come from ripped CDs show up on my iPhone as "Unknown Album".

Here's what i do...

1. make a playlist

2. put songs in the playlist

3. from iTunes, delete all music from the phone

4. Autofill the phone from that playlist (there's plenty of room on the phone)

But, starting maybe a month ago (?) songs from CDs all show up in the right artist, but as "Unknown Album".

Sometimes I can get things straightened out if I screw around with the Sorting values in iTunes. Sometimes that doesn't work. I have tens of thousands of songs, I'm not going to play with sorting options on all of them to work around what is clearly a new iTunes/iPhone bug.